Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-04-07
NEWS SUMMARY.

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neSday in Lexington, Kentucky.
A train of twenty cars of bottled
beer has left Milwaukee for the Pacific
coast.
Charles w. Fish of Iowa City has
been appointed Surveyor-general of
Nevada.
Five fine steamships are under con-
struction in the ship-yards at Detroit
and vicinity.
The democrats of Winona, Mime
sofa, have nominated John A. Math-
ews for mayor.
John p. Petit, the veteran printer
OF Cincinnati, died on Tuesday i'll his
eighty-ffth year.
| The Interstate commerce commits
SIoners were sworn into Office at Wash
ington on Thursday.
The birthday presents received by
Emperor William are sufficient to fill
| five furniture-vans.
Rev. DR.. McGlynn is about to lee
ture in New York ON the struggle of
labor against capital.
The court house at Yorkville, Hi
| nols, was burned Friday morning, but
| the records were saved
William Smithe premier of the prov
lnce of British Columbia, died on
| Wednesday at Victoria.
Samuel M. Turner, partner in the
Grand Pacific hotel at Chicago, died
! Wednesday noon, aged So.
James T. Benedict has. been ap-
pointed collector of internal revenue
for Colorado and Wyoming.
The Burlington road reports it's
gross earnings for 1886 at 500, 72S, 4O8,
and its net surplus at 1926, S31.
Senator Cullom is said to have paid
his fare from Washington to Spring
field, where he arrived Sunday.
Gambling implements to the value
of $4,000 were on Saturday burned by
the New York police authorities.
The death is announced of w. r.
Travers, a broker, of New York,
famous as a wit and stammerer.
James M. Trotter, the new recorder
of deeds at Washington. is in dan
gerous condition from pneumonia.
Nine horses in stable at Mason
City, Iowa, are affected with epizoot
resembling the national epidemic of
1872.
The Government tried a dynamite
gun in New York, and 1t threw a conf
cal shell weighing $50 pounds over q
miles.
r. B. Handsford, of Carthage, Ill
inois, received S27 for the scalps of
nine young wolves found in his
| pasture.
The Legislature of Connecticut has
| passed ten-hOur law for women and
children, the same as that of Mass
achusettS.
Armed men blew out the bank of the
Wabash and Erie canal at Defiance,
! Ohio, and destroyed the locks with
dynamite.
The Indianapolis Base Ball club has
paid S12. 500 for the st. Louis franchise
| and passed a resolution against play
ina ON Sunday
The steamship Scotia. with nine hum
| dred passengers, went ashore Friday
on Long Island. All the passengers
were saved.
| If Assistant Secretary Fairchild is
not selected. the chances are that some
| Western banker will be Secretary of
the Treasury.
For the first time in the history of
San Francisco. vessel has been char
tered for cargo of Hawaiian sugar
for New York.
A collision of Fort Wayne trains
| near LeetOnia, Ohio, caused the death
of Engineer Beall. Eight other per-
sons were injured.
By an explosion in the Bull colliery
at Sydney, South Wales. eighty-five
| men were entombed. Seven corpses
have been taken out.
The captain of the yacht Dauntless
| attributes his defeat in the recent race
to the interference Of the owner, Mr..
| Colt, who was on board.
James Kearney, a New York attor-
ney, is missing, and so is about $4,000
IN cash belonging to the firm with
which he was connected.
Senator Colquit, of Georgia. is still
speaking in Michigan in behalf of the
| proposed prOhibitory amendment to the
constitution of that state
Emperor William received ,64S con-
| gratulatOry dispatches on his recent
birthday. Sixty of the number were
sent from the United States.
Mrs. Fred Nelson, sister of Fred
erick Gerhard, has been granted a
the custody Of three children.
The late Eliza Weathersby Goodwin
bequeathed $4,000 to her mother in
London and the remainder of her es-
tate to her husband, Nat. C. Goodwin.
LAO 81 anu Jul du SulCdSO HIS IT,
turned indictments against Commits
sioner d. j. Wren, and ex-Commis-
sioners j. E. Van Pelt and Adam
Ochs.
In the Haddock murder trial at
Sioux City, Wednesday, man named
KOschiniSki testified that he saw John
Arensdorf shoot the clergyman in the
head.
G. M. Henderson, a shoe manufac-
turer of Chicago, has accepted an offer
of S25 900 from the citizens of Dixon.
Illinois, to locate his factory at that
place.
The state of California has obtained
judgment against two former harbor
commissioners for 100000 misappro-
priated by the secretary Of the COM
mission.
AT Beatrice, Nebraska, Friday, Jack
son Marion was hanged for the murder
of John Cameron fifteen years ago.
The sheriff found Marion in Kansas
jail in 1888.
President Fitzgerald of the Irish
National League has issued an appeal
for financial help for the people of
Ireland in the FIGHT AGAINST I'm uIiSh